Calling a specific page in an iframe based on parent url

grepico · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

Here's my situation. We have a GuilPortal site for our WoW guild and I am extremely limited on what I can do on the site. My focus is on the banner, they allow me to put custom html in the banner area, but no PHP. What I did was put iframe code in the banner area that called a php page from my personal site.

Banner Code:

<iframe FRAMEBORDER="0" src="http://www.grepico.com/ffweb/titlevid/ffvid.php" width="925" height="230"></iframe>

Here is the code in that php page:

<?php
//Gets the referer URL
$mdk = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
if ($mdk=="http://forsakensfinest.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=40498&TabID=358212")
include("http://www.grepico.com/ffweb/titlevid/fullvid.html");
else if ($mdk=="http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=40498&TabID=358212")
include("http://www.grepico.com/ffweb/titlevid/fullvid.html");
else if ($mdk=="http://guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=40498&TabID=358212")
include("http://www.grepico.com/ffweb/titlevid/fullvid.html");
else
include("http://www.grepico.com/ffweb/titlevid/titlevid.html");
?>

The urls fullvid.html and titlevid.html are basically two versions of a flash video. What I'm trying to do is make it so if the user is on the main page of the site they get the full video, if they are on any other page they get the shortened vid with no sound. This worked fine until a few days ago and with some research I have discovered that HTTP_REFERER is terribly unreliable.

In short, what I need to do is get the referring or parent url into a variable so my php will know which vid to show.

Thanks

SteveH · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 208

Do you have any control over changing the link code on the referring URLs, or are you stuck with the links as the appear?